Posts Tagged ‘fox news’

The Already Asked-And-Answered Questions Fox Wants To Know From The Benghazi Select Committee
May 7, 2014 4:03 PM EDT
OLIVIA KITTEL, MICHELLE LEUNG, & SAMANTHA WYATT
Fox News has pushed reset on many of its favorite Benghazi myths that have already been put to rest in the wake of the recently released Rhodes email and the House GOP's announcement of the formation of a Select Committee to investigate the attacks.
QUESTION: Who Changed The Talking Points?
QUESTION: Why
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Right-Wing Is Filled with Biblical Illiterates: They'd Be Shocked by Jesus' Teachings if They Ever Picked Up a Bible
Jesus wouldn't have supported food stamps
December 23, 2013 |
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly defended the Republican Party’s spending cuts for SNAP by effectively declaring Jesus would not support food stamps for the poor because most them are drug addicts. If his insensitive remark is inconsistent with Scripture, which it is, then the
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March 11, 2013
By Jason Sattler
The shock of 9/11 and the rapid appearance of success in ousting the Taliban presented George W. Bush with political power few U.S. presidents have enjoyed. Bush’s approval rating shot up to an astounding 90 percent in the aftermath of the largest-ever terror attack on Americans. Less than a year later, the Republican Party picked up eight House seats and control of the Senate — one of the few times in history the president’s party
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Bruce Bartlett: ‘My Life on the Republican Right And How I Saw It All Go Wrong’
By Brad Friedman on 11/27/2012, 3:33pm PT
We've been quite remiss by failing to offer the The BRAD BLOG's much-sought yet rarely-bestowed "Intellectually Honest Conservative" Award to Bruce Bartlett, Ronald Reagan's domestic policy adviser and George H.W. Bush's Deputy Asst. Secretary for Economic Policy.
We were reminded of our delinquency again
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Apoplectic: of a kind to cause or apparently cause stroke as in an apoplectic rage; also: greatly excited or angered as in she was apoplectic over the news. Hegemony: the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group. These are my new favorite words of the week. They perfectly define the GOP and the right’s feelings, and the cause of those feelings, after last Tuesday’s re-election of President Obama.
It has been quoted that the Romney camp
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Nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal Widens, Criminal Probe Opens in Florida
October 1st, 2012 7:23 pm Brad Friedman
A major element of the Republican National Committee’s overall attempt to game the 2012 elections by trying to affect who gets to vote and who does not, has just been stopped dead in its tracks.
Along with it, a criminal election fraud complaint has now reportedly been filed with law enforcement in the state of Florida against a
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Report: Man Who Was 'Tortured' by the Prospect of Obama's Re-Election Kills Family, Self
A tragic consequence of mental illness and the right's routine demonization of Democratic presidents.
September 28, 2012 |
The Right has painted a potential second term under Obama in apocalyptic terms. Fox News host Sean Hannity said that "if Obama is re-elected, it's the end of America as we know it." Pastor John Hagee,
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Also not a Pulitzer Prize nominee: Charles Gasparino of Fox Business
By Bill Dedman
Investigative Reporter, msnbc.com
NEW YORK — If you're keeping a list of journalists who have claimed for years to be Pulitzer Prize nominees without the inconvenience of actually being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, add one more name: Charles Gasparino, the pugnacious senior Wall Street correspondent for Fox Business Network.
After the outing in this space of non-nominees Jonah
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GOpers Working hard to Break their own Porn and Sex habits in South Carolina (Video)
South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian released the following statement and video in light of the SCGOP’s no porn, no sex Party Pledge for the 2012 election:
The Laurens County Republican Party is requiring a written pledge by all candidates for state and local office swearing off porn and sex. This requirement is being endorsed by Republican Party Chairman Chad
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The He-Man Woman Haters Club
By Bob Cesca
During a month when the abortion and contraception debate peaked -- again -- you would've thought the Sunday political shows would feature a larger than usual roster of female panelists, strategists and experts.
Not a chance.
There were a total of four female guests during the entire month of February. This bears repeating. Out of 56 guests on the Sunday shows, only four were women. Four.
This statistic probably
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